> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.surnex.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> SEO intelligence for agencies and in-house teams — rank tracking, backlinks, site audits, and AI search visibility.

Surnex is an SEO platform for tracking how your sites perform in search — traditional search and AI-generated answers alike. Add a domain, and Surnex collects rankings, backlinks, technical audits, and AI visibility data on a schedule, then turns it into dashboards and client-ready reports. This documentation covers everything from creating your first project to automating report delivery and driving Surnex from your own code.

In Surnex, everything lives inside an **organization**. You create a project for each domain you want to track, and every feature — rank tracking, backlinks, audits, AI search — works within that project. The main sidebar gives you **Projects**, **Reports**, and **Settings**.

## Start with your goal

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Track your first keywords" icon="chart-line" href="/quickstart">
    Create a project, add keywords, and see your positions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Audit your site" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/audits/overview">
    Crawl your site and find the technical issues holding it back.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Analyze your backlinks" icon="link" href="/backlinks/overview">
    Explore your link profile and find gaps against competitors.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Measure AI search visibility" icon="robot" href="/ai/overview">
    See whether AI Overviews and ChatGPT cite your brand.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use the REST API" icon="code" href="/api/introduction">
    Automate Surnex from your own scripts and integrations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use Surnex with AI (MCP)" icon="plug" href="/mcp/overview">
    Let Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents query your SEO data.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How Surnex works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create an organization">
    Your organization holds your projects, team members, and billing. Invite teammates and assign roles.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a project">
    A project is one domain, plus the target location and language you want to measure it in.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add keywords and competitors">
    Research keywords, add the ones worth tracking, and name the competitor domains you want to measure yourself against.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Let the data collect">
    Surnex checks rankings, backlinks, audits, web vitals, and AI visibility on a schedule and stores the history — you don't run anything by hand.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review and act">
    Work through your dashboard, position changes, and audit issues to see what moved and what to fix.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Report and automate">
    Build a report from your project data, share it with a link, and schedule recurring delivery by email.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Most Surnex pages show stored data collected by scheduled jobs, so figures update on their own cadence rather than on every page load. SERP results and Google Trends are the exception — they're fetched live when you open them.
</Note>